#200. Dr Sarah J Buckley - PhD on oxytocin , hormones of labour, physiological birth

So that's what we've done.

And we've done that the three, well, when I joined this research group, they were already doing that.

So they've published, and I'm a co-author on the first paper, which is called Plasma Oxytocin Levels.

in physiological childbirth.

And that's a great read.

If you go to my website, sarahbuckley.com, click the all the science button, you'll find links to all of these that are free full text articles.

You can click the link, download them, read them, print them out, whatever you want to do.

So that's physiological childbirth.

The second one was plasma oxytocin levels during breastfeeding.

So that's really interesting too.

And then the one that's in my PhD, the first one published is plasma oxytocin levels in birth with synthetic oxytocin.

That's very interesting.

We'll talk about that.

And then the two that are not yet published is plasma oxytocin levels in labor analgesia.

So that includes epidurals and opioid analgesia.

And then the one I'm working on right now, and hopefully we'll submit in the next two weeks, is plasma oxytocin levels in birth with cesareans.

Now, because we're relying on what the studies that other people have done, like we can't say we want to know more about this.

We just have to pull together all the studies that have been published.

But some of those studies have also measured newborn babies' blood as well, usually from the newborn cord blood.

So we can make some generalizations about that as well, especially with caesareans.

There was a lot of studies that measured cord blood in babies born by caesarean.

And usually born by vaginal birth in that same study.

So we've got a lot of data.

I think altogether we came up with 70, more than 70 studies in all of that data set.

And then obviously we've got different interventions that we're publishing separately.